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a very warm welcome to you this is. with me. demanding a probe into civilian casualties caused by nato bombings that's the reaction to a report by human rights groups which claimed dozens were killed in air strikes despite the alliance saying its operation was almost flawless while the conflict is over and the man who stood in the way of western style democracy now dead atrocities against his loyalists continue the war and you may find some of the images and boy his report. this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran good office hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts

about what's coming next. and scenes like these when you know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been longines about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his perceived loyalists in some places the violence is quite bad the town we looked out in was called. and the militias from the neighboring town of misrata are terrorizing the people of to where they accuse them of having fought for qaddafi of having committed atrocities in his name this is one of the liberated tripoli's new landmarks a prison where moammar gadhafi was set to hold his political opponents with no access to lawyers and no chance for a fair trial. but while the

prisons new guards have a very elaborate in their rating go back his ferocity his fear and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also and his name to the tourists present a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area still disappearing without a trace where families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mohammed to form peace and your earlier this year it investigated the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new leadership it's usually mothers who come here and at first they are scared to tell

me that this son or husband was with the khadafi forces they usually say he was a civilian courts in the crossfire but i tell them that i don't care which side he was on all i need is accurate information so that we can start searching. mohammad and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lee beer in recent months this naturists are probably the relatives most realistic hope of finding closure but even after sifting through them many managed to retain hope like this man his brother disappeared on the front lines of banter about. i hope he's in tunisia maybe he's in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they see hope dies last and leave but it's still alive even if many people aren't going to wake up artsy tripoli.

and it's fear that syria could also face foreign intervention with unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is a split over whether they need military help from outside in their fight against the government the division came as the country's witnesses some of the fiercest battles in his nine month old crisis almost two hundred troops in the ante regime protesters are reporters who are being killed in the latest series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to allow an observer's and observers mission which it's hoped might help to end the conflict. reports from damascus on the arab. the council is expected to send an advance team here to syria in the next couple of days ahead of the observers mission that will that be entering now that was agreed upon on monday when the syrian government signed the proposal that opened the doors for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive a mixed response from the opposition days outside the country the syrian national

council that's the main body outside of syria have said that they don't think that that decision is going to be as efficient as the syrian government is trying to make out in fact they called it a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that varies vary widely with what the opposition group within syria is saying the national coordinator council here in the country said that they welcomed they hoped that it would be implemented properly but they said that absolutely their stance is still very much against international intervention in their words they said that that could lead to the destruction of the country is something big they do not want to see happening we went to the city of homs the other day that's one of the main called think areas now we weren't allowed to enter any of the hotspots where the conflict with continuing we were allowed to see some of the parts of the city speak

to some of the people that this is the city it's been described as being on the brink of civil war. to be almost a situation here in homes it's very difficult. things which make us feel intimidated because of the situation the problems with the city. because my feet certainly the situation there and the civilians who are still living within that city are in a very very extreme situation and there's calls from all the people living there to resolve that as soon as possible. meantime a u.s. based intelligence gathering has most. the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are true the company called struck four says protestors are exaggerating to wait outside support from palace like the united states dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told us here at r.t. that he believes washington is not just backing the rebels in

a diplomatic. but the united states is involved in stirring up their opposition and in arming it they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do and look so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like through syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to regularly supply themselves with arms military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan course who got saved in libya which involved here is the russians now the naming base in syria. and the americans and the russian naval presence in the middle ground just as in libya where the problem was the chinese all investments in syria and iran is in the target sites and and

lebanon and so there will be knocking all of these countries one by one while they stand there and don't unite in fact it can't unite and that's why they're so vulnerable. it's good to have you with us you're watching. getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling in its affairs. it's simply outrageous that. can prevent us from bringing about the reforms but we said we were going to. look into the controversy surrounding the e.u. is attempts to make. rules. to two thousand and twelve. trends the. history

in the making. money. two thousand and eleven. about ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the first session of russia's six state duma the lower house of parliament is under way it comes of more than two weeks after elections spog mass protests over alleged fraud that you're caught in the ghetto but i joins us live from the parliament building for details on this to read others do it is different from the previous one tell us how the seats are spread and what can we expect from it they still missing deep different and opposition will obviously get a much louder voice in the new do much with united russia failing to secure a constitutional majority it's widely believed that the lower house of the russian parliament will again become a field of heated debates well you know as russia won the december fourth vote got the majority of the seats and the new duma but in the form worse than four years

ago losing almost two hundred seats now that united russia doesn't dominate all the committees that is as it was in previous. previous two months would change the approach towards law mean i would like to address this question to political analyst to meet people who come in so a completely new doom a completely new format of debates raised voices heard during the first session is it how it's going to function is it becoming a real filled up debates from now on yes the nature of the debate is changing because now their position gets about half of the elite is so they will control sorted commit itself to and this is a significant victory for them at the same time a significant this because they will have to show that they're ready to share the responsibility for the fate of the country and that they're able to provide constructive criticism of the policy and provide new ideas so we will see how these two mobile function and. where the opposition is ready to go for the stars to take

a look prime minister vladimir putin has said many times of the country does not need a parliament which possible calls mechanically do you think that this new composition of the state duma will provide. the country with such a yes i assume that the the do it again become the place for the heated debate that the plenary sessions as well because while in the previous will it was easier to solve most of the questions with the committees nowadays. the composition of the committees has changed and more issues will be taken for debates to the to the plan the recession so all they can true will be able to see is the there deputies to see how they discuss things and what they actually suggest this will be a kind of more open form of governance in russia everybody knows that first session of the duma has been tarnished by mass protests. with people saying that the

elections were rigged the results were wreaked we know that there's been mass coverage of how illegal demonstrators were arrested and linked to released like blogger alex enough i look forward to protestors protests for violence why do you think you see such a popular figure with the media i think in this popularity so far it's mostly with the internet community and of course yes i managed to raise interest because a person after the after the recent after the recent trailers much will depend on his behavior in the future because one thing he should be a popular internet hero and the other thing is to become a politician so far it's not yet sure that he is ready to again take responsibility to take the challenge and to become a political figure most importantly but those debates move from this trade into the building of the lower house of the russian parliament thank you very much for that meeting for you coming from the first state session of the state tomorrow. it's

going to tour with life in central moscow thank you. for watching lots of the new year is just ten days away and we are starting our very own countdown with ten spots. reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven looking back at major stories through the eyes of our correspondents who witnessed them and we start with an area that sorts a fair share of breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not put a lot of reveals. one of the biggest landmarks the resort this year was the fiftieth anniversary of your first spaceflight just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant to have that first flight by you

daryn fifty years ago and he was saying really it changed us as a species we stopped being limited to our own planet we were able to go out and explore further of course a few years after the first month set foot on the moon. for the most five hundred project which came to an end this year was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to go in and have a look at it where they were when i'd seen it on television i was thinking wow this is six guys in a shed and then when i actually went to where the spacecraft was i realised it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean i'm doing them a bit of a disservice saying that they're in a show in a shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time. currently simulating never. however it will be. months before this can be opened and they can step back to

normality it was nice on the day i remember the day when they came out. the look on their faces when the door opened the look on the very very pale faces of course you have to realize these guys haven't seen sunlight for such a long time. they were ecstatic to have come out of there. and it really was i mean whether scientifically it ends up being the building block or the the first step towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to. people too. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out of that progress now it wasn't just the module itself they've been using since the late seventy's it was the fact that this was carried on. the only way we have now getting people into space. the progress module that was launched at the end of

carrying food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing. from the guys on the space station those food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive training they know what they're doing they'll be fine. who is actually the mission commander who was up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried that. they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that in the beginning twenty twelve. people put themselves through evidence thankfully that. didn't result in. any major problems on.

the perseverance of these people who risked their lives going into space well as a job they do it. and this was just the first report in our special series on the events that shaped two thousand and eleven make sure you don't miss the rest will be bringing you a new story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our web site. where you can also check out. right now. also. in the

united states. breathing. in about five minutes time with the business. may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds in welfare benefits. if the european union has its way but with a new spirit of cooperation the decision might not be quite so easy to impose. homeless and jobless this man's too embarrassed to be identified he came to britain from poland five years ago hoping to live a dream but the realities been a nightmare he claims the u.k.'s welfare state hasn't been fair on him.

i'm a citizen of the european union five years ago i decided that this country would be my home i didn't come here to claim benefits i came here to work. david's what the government fears is a benefit tourist here to take and not to give back english is still a struggle and the state says he doesn't qualify for its handouts a serious accident eighteen months ago put him out of work and he soon went bankrupt he's been living on the street ever since but still won't go back to poland. i thought this was a friendly country but only if it needs you and you work for it becomes he could give me something but he doesn't need me i never thought it would be like this this is not a paradise. foreign nationals are eligible for welfare once they've lived here for over three months but they must convince the or priorities they are here to work

and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain where north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it's simply outrageous that an elected official from brussels can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when we were voted into office the e.u. commission is refusing to speak to us but it hasn't been shy in issuing britain with an altar mate. it says the right to reside test foreigners must pass to claim benefits is too tough and it's given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will see. britain's refusing to budge otherwise it

claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who won't put anything back in the pockets the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the regional welfare state back in the one nine hundred forty s. which had contributed principal you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute. forty percent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those on eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the ukase force to sweeten the deal i've been it r t london. all right now let's get some other headlines from around the world for you this hour time for the r.t. world update or stop of the philippines the number killed in last week's massive flash flooding there one thousand that number is expected to grow with your thought he is continuing to find bodies most of the dead women and children he drowned last friday when water gushed into homes as they slept

a state of national calamity has been declared. health officials in hong kong have slaughtered more than seventeen thousand chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu was found live poultry imports have also been banned for three weeks as a precaution till it's determined whether contaminated chicken came from bird flu occasionally infects people who have close contact with tainted poultry. and now have a look at this amazing video of a miraculous escape a driver tries to overtake a truck on a wintry russian road though the car is pulling out to the center here we go. moment of horror as that as a giant truck coming the opposite way jackknifes and hit the car misses by a whisker look at this. hair raising the amazing escapes already received two million views on you tube loads of comments most of the viewers including us amazed

by the calm reaction driver. today's top stories after the latest business news is now. welcome to the business program hopes for a quick end to the long lasting conflict between ukraine and russia has vanished the countries fell to reach agreement during high price all overnight talks however they say this will not affect the chances of russian gas to europe ukraine is struggling to persuade russia to cut the price for his energy supplies saying the burden is too big for the country's troubled economy he had didn't even manage to pay november's bill itself on board half a billion dollars from russia's gas pump bank constantine it seem an all from russia's national energy security fund says another class war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the general said and i was the

last war because in general sales of my view was the main reason for the you know we. are called into a war we were. at war you see this is why would. a let's see what's happening on the markets today oil is going first day as investors are optimistic that shrinking stockpiles of the us combined with signs of an economic recovery only into monster fuel will increase life so it is currently trading i have a ninety eight dollars per barrel was brought into the above one hundred and seven dollars. european stocks are carrying on from tuesday's rally the front is adding over half a percent meanwhile the dots is just under one percent in the block by december's all stocks all losing the guy. on the russian market some mixes out the artist is gaining almost one percent on the my stakes is down around

a cool stuff upset. that somebody some individual sami's on the my sex trade chips all mixes our t.v. has slipped into negative territory all my divorce nafta is not so positive try. make a come out says flats the company because it increases by nine percent next year while great design i have seen magical expects no significant movements in the stocks this week. russian market has underperformed global markets just significantly over the past three weeks. by a large margin but will probably continue to observe there's a political risk from the president and perhaps even increasing as we get closer to the weekend. when we have another major stations scheduled to take place in moscow so i think many investors will want to take. a wait and see approach anticipating of that so i don't expect there are significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. russia's gasman over the gas problem has decided

to moment double the issues dividends the company's shareholders will get six point two billion dollars of the payouts approved at next year's a.g.m. probably is being criticized for low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however i must say the move could leave the monopoly to a missed balance budget is due to plans gas to scouts for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe more details of a must about the possible solid russia's largest. the bit of icy news paper ripples the owners want to force a five billion dollars to one hundred percent of the shed for the moscow to add up on name sources claim the financial consortium alpha great investment group and sumo holdings all the most likely potential acquirers however they add the possible bias on the ready to stump up the full amounts being honest it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to civill. on the us if an album back in about fifty

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